throne fire

The silver moon dominates the night sky, and the Gulan Bell Tower built by white stone is particularly eye-catching under the moonlight. The colorful paintings are all over the stone walls, depicting the outstanding deeds of the Gula Dynasty.

Soga got into a bush, and Aslan followed behind. They peeled off the branches and found two inconspicuous marks on the wall, the flame totem and the water pattern totem.

"Are you ready?" Suo Jia asked.

"Ah."

The two boys tacitly put their hands on the totems they owned, a mass of red flames and a stream of blue water poured out from the totems, and soon they met in the sky, only to see a flash of purple light, and the stone wall turned towards the totem. Backing away from both sides, a steep stone step appeared in front of them, which meandered and extended towards the darkness underground.

ta ta ta

The crisp footsteps echoed in the cramped space, and the golden firebird flew in front of Suoga to light their way.

Such ancient underground passages are spread throughout the Mu Palace, and the stone wall of the Gulan Bell Tower is only one of the entrances. In order to open this entrance, the two boys worked hard for half a year.

Originally, they just wanted to sneak into the Temple of the Sun, but the reality told them that the surrounding area of ​​the temple was heavily guarded, even if they could transform into wind, it would be difficult for them to get in.

In order to realize this dream, they planned to dig a tunnel directly from Suoga's palace to sneak into the Sun Temple. The child's whimsy made them suffer a lot, and they finally understood that it would be difficult to complete this huge project even if it took ten years.Moreover, in order not to attract attention, they could only act at night, and time constraints made them almost shelved this project for a while.

The cobwebs, musty smell, peeling lime, everything here is depressing.

"Let's try another way today." Everywhere we go, Suo Jia will make a mark there, so as to prevent them from getting lost. When the steps go down to a certain stage, they will be penetrated by various complicated passages. Man knows where they end up going.

"It's like a maze here."

"It might be the maze."

"Why is there such a structure under the palace? Could it be an ancient underground city?"

The children's whimsy made them draw the appearance of this ancient city in their minds, but they also knew that they did not come for this ancient city, their purpose was just to hope that there would be a passage leading to the Temple of the Sun .

"Are you still having nightmares?" Suo Jia asked at this time.

"Never stopped for nine months."

"What's new in the dream?"

"As usual," Aslan sighed helplessly, "magma, sea of ​​fire, temples, flamingos..." He paused for a moment, "the last is the green tree hovering in the air, its roots tightly entwined A boulder."

"Is anyone else calling your name?"

"Well, the sound is loud, but it feels more and more distant every time."

"Where do you think the sound is coming from? The sky or the earth?"

Aslan shook his head, "I don't know, it's everywhere, coming from all directions."

"It may come from within you."

"what?"

"Have you forgotten that Durakaze once said that dreams are created by the human heart?" Soga stopped suddenly.

"What's the matter?" Aslan asked.

"Someone."

A curtain of pale blue water covered the Firebird, and the light suddenly disappeared.The two children hurriedly hid in a shadow.

The military boots were getting closer and closer, and the rapid breathing of the grown man was very close. The two boys remained motionless. They saw a group of soldiers passing through the passage at the end of the stone steps. After the sound of the military boots disappeared, they jumped out of the shadows again. come out.

"Why is there someone below?"

This has never been encountered by the two boys in the past year of action, Suo Jia began to have a new thinking, maybe this place is really not as abandoned as they imagined. "We need to get out of here," he suggested.

Just then the soldiers suddenly withdrew, and the boys, terrified, ran from the nearest transverse passage that ran through the stone steps.

Da da da

"Catch them," the soldier leader said.

Da da da

They ran desperately, and the underground wind rushed towards them with a smell of mud. They didn't remember how many side roads they had crossed, and they didn't remember whether they ran back and forth in vain on a certain road until the soldiers were completely thrown away by them. There was darkness in front of them, and a thick stone gate blocked their way.

The heavy panting made them sweat profusely.

"Suojia, use the starfish lamp, we need to get some light." Aslan sat down against the stone wall.

"Wait a minute, I'm very tired now, and I can't concentrate." Suo Jia supported the wall with one hand, and kept fanning himself with the other.

Both boys were stunned when starfish lights lit the darkness.

This is a relatively closed room. It is like the ear chamber of a temple. The stone walls are filled with dense words and symbols, as if they are accusing some terrible facts.

"What is this?" Aslan walked to the stone gate not far away, and there was the only mural on it: a square temple stands on the top of a towering mountain, with four gates opening in all directions, and the stone giant faces The holy mountain knelt in the surging sea, their hands were entangled by giant pythons, and their eyes were blinded by flamingos.

Below the mural is engraved an ancient font:

I gather into the sea with tears

ignite them with resentment

Welcome the seed of vengeance to come to the world

"Sauga." Aslan stared at the mural and called weakly.

"I see." An ethereal voice answered him from behind.

Aslan was so startled that he hurriedly turned his head. There was no Suojia in front of him. He was clearly a grown man as shocked as heaven. He was wearing a fiery red priest robe, and the brim of his hat covered his forehead. Under the shadow, those bright golden pupils He was staring at himself.

There was a faint smile on the corner of the man's mouth, which made him become evil.

Aslan stepped back in fear, and when his back was pressed against the cold stone door, he had nowhere to escape.No one had ever made him so timid, he couldn't even control his heartbeat, let it slow down a little.

The end of the man's robe was dragging in the dust, and he approached step by step until Aslan was completely shrouded in his shadow, "I love her so much, but she likes you, why?" He suddenly stretched out his right hand, stuck grabbed Aslan's neck and lifted him a full half meter off the ground.

"Let... let me go." Aslan struggled, he slapped the man's strong arm with all his strength. In an instant, countless water droplets scattered in the air, and they gathered into a giant net to trap the red-robed man. Zizi walked through the water net, but the man made the water net disappear with a light wave of his arm almost unhindered, "Do you still want to resist? You are just a mortal now."

Aslan was a little desperate, the man pushed him back hard, and he felt that his body was sinking into the stone door behind him bit by bit.He changed tactics and took the man's arm around his neck with both hands. A strong manipulative force penetrated the man's body. His arm became painful and his blood boiled under his skin. At the head of the attack, Aslan kicked the man with all his might, miraculously he kicked the man two meters away, and he also felt his whole body fall into the stone door behind him.

"Alan, Alan?"

When Aslan opened his eyes, he was already lying on his bed, while Suo Jia shouted worriedly and pleasantly, "Great, he woke up."

He struggled to support his body, his whole body was so weak that he seemed to be suffering from a serious illness, "Why am I here?"

"We were caught." Soga whispered in his ear, "Dulakaze saved us. He told the guards that we were playing hide-and-seek, so we ran into the basement."

"Where's the man in the red robe?"

"What red-robed man?" Suo Jia looked at him suspiciously, and then he suddenly realized, "By the way, are you dreaming again? You kept whispering 'not me' when you were unconscious, what wasn't me?"

Aslan looked around, he guessed that maybe he really had another strange dream, and the man in the red robe was hurting him with the jealousy of an adult, but he had never done anything, how could he provoke such a rival in love What about hatred?

"I'm hungry." He finally said.

A huge dining table was moved to Aslan's bedroom by Soka's men, and the two boys ate a lot of food while talking and laughing.

When it was his turn to drink soup, Soga put down the tableware in his hand and said to him, "Come and try, show off your special skills." He opened his mouth, waiting for Aslan to deliver the soup into his mouth.

Aslan did so, but at the end, Suoga shouted to stop, and he kept feeding him, the soup spilled on Suoga's face and body, the little prince rushed over in anger, he put Aslan pressed to the ground, and the two little guys fought on the ground.

"I told you to dirty my face and see how I can clean you up." He scratched his itch, he knew he was most afraid of this.

"Okay, stop." Aslan resisted, he hadn't fully recovered yet, so he almost had the upper hand at the moment.

"Last time when I peed, you made my hands full of urine. Try again next time, and I will roast your ass."

"Ah, it's such a mess here." At this moment, Durakadze came in, and he could only walk on tiptoes because of the vegetable dregs on the ground. He walked up to the two boys and squatted down, "Okay, prince and prince , I'm going to be driven crazy by you two."

"What does the father say?" The boys stopped fighting, and Soga was still riding on Aslan's waist.

"Get up first, you are about to crush him." Durakaze helped Suojia, and then Aslan, "Rahm is very angry, he told me that next time I will put the two of you together." tied to a stone pillar and burned."

"He can't burn me to death." Soga giggled.

"Okay, Your Royal Highness, if you don't think for yourself, you have to think for your friend. What are you two doing in Gulan Bell Tower?"

"Just to see if you can find the statue of Jialan there." Suo Jia quickly replied.

"Answer too quickly, you're lying," Durakadze said.

"Well, we're just looking for the legendary holy city."

"The Holy City ceased to exist as early as the Gula Dynasty."

"But the book says it's under the palace, so we want to go and see it." Suoga's strong point is never to blush when lying, and Duracaze's strong point is to see his lies. It's just that the teacher doesn't say anything anymore, he understands Every child has secrets that they don't want to tell adults. "Why don't you take me with you next time." The teacher smiled slightly.

"There will be no next time, you said that Ram wants to burn us to death." Suo Jia saw a letter in the teacher's hand, "What is this?"

"By the way," the teacher handed the letter to Aslan, "it's from your mother."

Aslan opened the letter, and the contents of the letter completely exposed his emotional changes.

"What did you say?" Suo Jia asked worriedly.

"My mother gave birth to a beautiful little brother for me."

Suo Jia was about to comfort him, but Aslan said with a smile, "She also said that she has persuaded my father to let him write to Ram personally to discuss the matter of allowing me to return to China as soon as possible."

The only trace of a smile disappeared from Suo Jia's face.